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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta — Apple has added limited TRIM support to the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should enhance the long term performance of Solid State Drives. — While Apple has already started incorporating SSDs into its Macs …
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Gizmodo, The Apple Core Blog, The NeoSmart Files, TUAW and Engadget, Thanks:lockergnome
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple has added a new option in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to simplify the process of switching from a Windows PC to a Mac via network import of old files. — Apple has historically helped Mac users to upgrade to a new machine via FireWire Target Disk Mode, which converts their old Mac into a hard drive …
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Examiner, MacStories and AllNewsMac
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Inside Mac OS X Lion: New window controls & gestures — Apple is finally letting go of old windowing conventions that date back to the original Macintosh, allowing users in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to fluidly interact with windows any way they like. — Back in 1984, Apple had to bundle new Macs with instructions on how to use a mouse.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Lion's ‘Signature Capture’ in Preview photographs your written signature to put in PDFs — This new feature in Mac OS X 10.7, discovered by reader Mime454, really wows us. It's called ‘Signature Capture’ and it allows you to write your signature with a black pen on a piece of paper …
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MacStories
AppleInsider:
Mac OS X Lion drops Front Row, Java runtime, Rosetta
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9 to 5 Mac, The Register, Edible Apple and Softpedia News
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Podcast Publisher lets you run your own shows, debuts in 10.7 Lion
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VentureBeat, MacNN, AppleInsider and CNET News
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Find my Mac coming in 10.7 Lion?
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MacHackPC, Apple Bitch, Electronista, Electronista, AllNewsMac and iClarified
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products — One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices …
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A VC, Howard Lindzon, Oatmeal Stout and Mark Evans Tech
The Technium:
Free Kindle This November — In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the price of the Kindle was falling at a consistent rate, lowering almost on a schedule. By June 2010, the rate was so unwavering that he could easily forecast the date at which the Kindle would be free: November 2011.
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Trends in the Living Networks, The J-Walk Blog, Examiner, TeleRead and Novelr
Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Google Kills eHow Competitors, eHow Rankings Up — Economics Drive Literally Everything Media is all about profit margins. eHow was originally founded in 1998 & had $36 million in venture capital behind it. But the original cost structure was flawed due to high content costs.
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SAI, Techi.com, The Business Insider, Search Engine Watch, Quora, @mathewi, @jillwhalen, @carnage4life and SISTRIX
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google's “Farmer” Algorithm Change?
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Quora, Thanks:keithdsouza
Tyler / BlackBerry Developer's Blog:
Thanks for the Open Letter to RIM Developer Relations — Hi everyone: I'm Tyler Lessard from RIM. I head up our BlackBerry Developer Relations and Developer Programs team. I wanted to take a moment to provide some updates on our PlayBook developer tools, app submission process …
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BlackBerry Cool, p2pnet and The Weblog of Jamie Murai
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps — IF you have a smartphone, you probably have apps on it to check the news, play games, help with shopping or further a hobby like travel or bird-watching. But chances are that you don't yet have Bubblegum — a new app that lets …
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Windows Phone Secrets, MSDN Blogs, WPCentral.com and Slashdot
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Microsoft Research teases Windows Phones controlling Surfaces and crazy desktop UIs — Hey, look, at this point, we just want ourselves some good, old-fashioned copy and paste — but we'll give Microsoft some credit for looking a year (or two, or ten) beyond that watermark at what could be coming …
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TechFlash, Spice Up Your Life, MobileTechWorld, Slashdot, FierceWireless and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
NeuAer lets you tag the radio signature of your ex — Dave Mathews, the Dave Mathews who invented the CueCat, is at the Launch Conference today showing off his latest out-there company, NeuAer. He believes that location reporting services on mobile phones—apps such as Foursquare—are too coarse and require too much work to use.
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Ubergizmo, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat
ABCNEWS:
Libya's ‘Love Revolution’: Muslim Dating Site Seeds Protest — Coded Love Letters Help Opposition Members Organize Protest — When Omar Shibliy Mahmoudi exchanged sweet nothings on the Muslim dating site Mawada, it wasn't for love but for liberty. — To avoid detection by Libyan secret police …
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Mark Suster / TechCrunch:
What's The Real Deal With AngelList? — Editor's Note: This is a guest post by @msuster (Mark Suster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. His second company was sold this company to Salesforce.com, where he served as VP of Product Management. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable.
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@davepell, @peterchane, @shervin, Quora and Scobleizer, Thanks:msuster
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